Joe Hendry took inspiration from Queen and Pitbull for his entrance music

Joe Hendry has revealed the science behind his TNA entrance music.

The Scottish star has become very popular in recent months. His entrance song “I Believe in Joe Hendry” nearly reached the top of the charts in the UK, thanks to sustained push from wrestling fans.

Meanwhile, his NXT debut became the most viewed video on WWE social media this year. Over seventeen million people watched as the crowd sang along to his entrance music, although he had never appeared in WWE before.

Joe Hendry spoke with Chris Van Vliet about his entrance music. He explained how Queen’s “We Will Rock You” inspired him to “reverse engineer” it into a catchy song.

“It was reverse engineered from what I wanted to happen. To me, pro wrestling is all about crowd interaction, so throughout the song you’ll notice we’re literally showing and saying what we want the crowd to do. So say his name and he’ll show up, and you’ll see the two claps. No matter what version of that song I had, there was always a visual of the two hands clapping.

“Then I literally tell the audience to move their hands side to side, side to side. That’s it. And it comes from, uh, I heard Queen talking about how they structured “We Will Rock You” and how they found the perfect BPM for the way they wanted people to tap their feet and clap. Then I looked at the BPM they used for the slower parts, and I went with 120 BPM for the faster part, which is like your… it’s that kind of hypnotic pop timing.”

Joe Hendry used a Pitbull song as inspiration for his entrance

Pitbull is another major inspiration for Joe Hendry’s music. The American rapper is famous for citing the places he’s been to in his songs, and Hendry took that to heart.

This part of the song started out as a road song mocking his failure as a wrestler. However, it has now become an anthem for Joe Hendry fans around the world.

“I couldn’t decide if I wanted to go for it because the song I had before people liked and was catchy, but I just felt like it needed a little more work. energy,” said Joe Hendry. “So I wanted something a little faster. The first section sounds a bit like “International Love” by Pitbull. I mentioned this when we were on the way that I had been a musician for a long time before getting into wrestling. That melody was a message to me: “Oh my God, we’re never going to make it with this rock music.” We should just be like Pitbull and name places. »

“So I came up with this song that was just making fun of our failure. After shows, we’d drive around, go ‘London, Paris and Tokyo,’ and then when I found the song, it just kept sticking in my head. I thought, ‘Maybe this is the one.’ So yeah, it’s a song that I made as a joke, to make fun of the fact that I hadn’t made it as a musician about 10 years ago, and then it just kept sticking in my head. And here we are now,” Hendry added.

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